Air France Jet Disappears on Flight From Brazil to Paris

Yeah sad thing what happened to Stewart.

Weird story about Stewart. My mom was one of the leads on his autopsy and confirming his cause of death. So, a few days after his death, there's a message on our home answering machine (yeah it was answering machines back then) from one of her assistants saying "I left Payne Stewart's fingers on your desk for you to review. We'll catch up tomorrow" I think it was actually some bone and tissue, not his actual finger. But still...one of the oddest messages I've heard

Weird story about Stewart. My mom was one of the leads on his autopsy and confirming his cause of death. So, a few days after his death, there's a message on our home answering machine (yeah it was answering machines back then) from one of her assistants saying "I left Payne Stewart's fingers on your desk for you to review. We'll catch up tomorrow" I think it was actually some bone and tissue, not his actual finger. But still...one of the oddest messages I've heard

that's creepy man

Did the finger point to what cause his death?

This sounds pretty terrifying. By this account, at least the passengers were passed out from the lack of cabin pressure before the plane went down. I think being awake as your plane is crashing would pretty much be the scariest thing imaginable.

HORRIFYING FINAL 14 MINUTES OF AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447 - New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/seven/06042009/news/worldnews/jets_horrifying_final_14_minutes_172538.htm?&page=1)

Thunderstorm 50,000 feet high... insane.

Hopefully those poor people went quick.

Thunderstorm 50,000 feet high... insane.

Hopefully those poor people went quick.

I don't know if we have any aviation experts here, but if the thunderstorms have a "ceiling", in this case 50,000 feet, would it be possible to fly over the thundercloud?

Thunderstorm 50,000 feet high... insane.

Hopefully those poor people went quick.


I think that has to do with the close proximity to the equator. Weather is really screwy around there. My stepdad was an engineer and worked on lots of boats, mostly for NASA and the Navy regarding rocket/missle tracking. He crossed over the equator many times, and had some pretty interesting stories about how bizarre the conditions are around the equator.

I don't know if we have any aviation experts here, but if the thunderstorms have a "ceiling", in this case 50,000 feet, would it be possible to fly over the thundercloud?

I don't know that sounds really high. I don't think commercial airliners go above 45,000.

Even if they could have gone over it the article points out sometimes a storm forms around you and you're basically stuck.

Thunderstorm 50,000 feet high... insane.

Hopefully those poor people went quick.
Sad part is it sounds like the storm slowly distroyed the plane. Not to make lite of the situation but they probably bounced around that plane like ping pong balls in bingo machine.